Conversation started Oct 24, 2013 at 20:57.
Oct 24, 2013 20:57
great little image
I always have to double check myself because I can never remember which ones have which
user55340
@Sparticus and see... you start drawing pictures with strange words in them... and thinking that magma is on the surface of the world rather under it.
@MichaelT Also the world is apparently roughly shaped like a 5.25" floppy disk
a Magma is a set and binary operation (generally referred to as * or multiplication regardless of it's actual operation) with closure (the binary operation cannot be applied to the set in such a way as to receive a result outside of the set), a Semigroup is a magma where the * is associative which means (a * b) * c = a * (b * c), a monoid is a semigroup with a single identity element i in the set which can multiply with any other element in the set to get back that same element a * i = a
user55340
See? You're saying words again...
also identity multiplication is commutative so a * i = i * a
user55340
Oct 24, 2013 21:13
(I got to 8 words, then started looking for a period and didn't find any until I typed it in the ellipses to make up for your missing ones)
user55340
(and yea, I know... just giving you a hard time...)
inverses are a little trickier, a group is a monoid where every element in the set has a single inverse of it where when multiplied together you get the identity element, and inverses are commutative because an element is the inverse of it's inverse, so for a if it's inverse is b it means that a * b = i and they're inverses of eachother so b * a = i which means they're comutative so a * b = b * a = i
 
Conversation ended Oct 24, 2013 at 21:14.